The crazed terrorist who killed dozens of people when he ploughed a massive lorry into groups of people celebrating Bastille Day screamed 'Allahu Akbar' as he opened fire on frantic police trying to stop him, it has been claimed.

The twisted killer , a 31-year-old French-Tunisian man named locally as Mohamed Lahouaiej Boisvert, was seen zigzagging along the road in an effort to kill as many terrified people as possible as he careered along the promenade in Nice.

At least 84 people were killed and a further 18 are feared to be fighting for their life while dozens of children are in hospital after the lorry careered along the promenade at around 40mph.

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He said: “We almost died. It was like hallucinating ... (the lorry) zigzagged - you had no idea where it was going. My wife ... a metre away ... she was dead. “The lorry ripped through everything ... poles, trees.

“We have never seen anything like it. Some people were hanging on the door and tried to stop it.”

The back of the lorry was packed with guns, ammo and grenades and the horror murder spree only came to an end after a mile - at which point armed police shot the man dead.

Brit Will Shore told BBC Radio 4: “It was quite chaotic really. There was a lot of people screaming, running around and people were kind of being pushed over, I think, from people just being so frightened about what was going on especially after hearing the gunshots.

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“I had to help a couple of people up who were in distress on the floor because everyone was in such a panic.”

It is thought the terrorist picked up the lorry close to the attack site after an unnamed accomplice hired it and left it there.

Tony Molina, an American witness to the attack, told CNN: “There was still a crowd of people and then you just see this big white panel truck, I couldn’t see the driver, but it just kept going at different angles from left to right at 25 to 30 miles and hour.

Father and son Sean and Brodie Copeland both died in Nice Attack in France (Image: Facebook)

The windscreen of the lorry was riddled with bullet holes (Image: Reuters)

A dead body is removed from the Promenade des Anglais the morning after the attack (Image: Getty)

“People were screaming and running. I work in homicide and I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s unbelievable.”

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British holidaymaker Esther Serwah, 59, was staying in a hotel a short walk from the scene.

She said she had been on her way to the Promenade des Anglais for dinner with her daughters when people started screaming at her.

Mrs Serwah, from Surrey, said: “I was just walking to the Promenade and then I saw everybody running and I just didn’t know what was going on. People were screaming at me in French but I didn’t understand.

“Some people were lying on the streets dead and people were running over the bodies. Everybody was saying it’s a terrorist attack. It’s just horrible, horrible, horrible. I’m in shock. I’m still shaking.”